Book of hours

Accession number: 
MS M.357
Title: 
Book of hours
Created: 
Belgium, possibly Tournai, ca. 1440.
Binding: 
Original stamped-leather binding signed by Ia. Poulle, who has been identified with a Jean or Jacques Pouille, recorded as a binder in Tournai in 1445.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description: 
335 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 200 x 140 mm
Provenance: 
Owned ca. 1600 by Jerome De Winghe, canon at Tournai; E.H. Lawrence sale (London, 1892, no. 287) to Quaritch; Lucien Dlamarre (Théophile Belin catalogue, 1909, no. 16, 4 plates); Sotheby's sale (London, May 6, 1909, lot 12, plate) to Quaritch; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Quaritch in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes: 

Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin), calendar for Tournai; written and illuminated in Belgium, perhaps in Tournai, ca. 1440.
Decoration: 1 full-page, 29 half-page miniatures.
Artist: a follower of the Master of Guillebert de Mets.

Script: 
textura
Language: 
Latin
Century: 
Classification: